Staff Software Development Engineer, Microservices

Job overview

Staff Software Development Engineer, Microservices is a hybrid role in Santa Clara, California, with a minimum of three days per week in the office. The annual base salary range is $133,000–$190,000, excluding any applicable commission, bonus, or equity. The role supports Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) control-plane engineering. The engineer builds and operates domain-aligned microservices and improves their reliability, security, and delivery. Owning services from design through deployment, the role helps the team advance a scalable cloud-native architecture for ZIA.

What you'll do

• Build and operate low-latency, event-driven microservices from API through storage.
• Contribute shared development, CI/CD, testing, and delivery patterns, including GitOps and progressive delivery.
• Instrument services, define and track SLIs/SLOs, and participate in incident response, on-call rotations, runbooks, and postmortems.
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, Security, and Architecture on designs and documentation.
• Improve service security, performance, capacity planning, autoscaling, and cloud cost.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff software development engineer

microservices

software engineering

zia core

santa clara ca

zscaler

hybrid

full-time

$133,000–$190,000

go

kubernetes

aws

on-call rotation

cloud-native

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Health plans
• vacation and sick time
• parental leave
• retirement options
• education reimbursement
• in-office perks.

Why this role

End-to-end service ownership in the ZIA Core department, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response.

About the employer

Zscaler is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.